Opinion by Christine Emba: Peoplehood introduces itself as a new kind of exercise. But if you look more closely, it’s clear that what’s being sold is church.
. Peoplehood introduces itself as a new kind of exercise. But if you look more closely, it’s clear that what’s being sold is church.
The fact that there’s a potential market for this speaks to what our society is lacking. But the venture itself — at least in the details it has revealed so far — models the biggest problems with how we’ve tried to fill the gap.reported that roughly 3 in 10 American adults were religiously unaffiliated, a share 6 percentage points higher than it was five years before and 10 percentage points higher than it was 10 years earlier.
While religious participation has decreased, depression and anxiety, fueled by a sensation of purposelessness and lack of meaning, are on the rise., 1 in 5 Americans reported that they always or often felt lonely or socially isolated — something the covid-19 pandemic has only made worse. So in strides Peoplehood — ready to tap into a market. “We realized that connection should be its own product,” one of its founders told the TimesBut to turn something into a “product” means modifying it for mass-market palatability. And in this case, that looks like emptying a religious experience of the rigor, expectation and commitment that gives it meaning.
Peoplehood’s tone is studiously nondenominational and stringently open-ended, without a hint of judgment or expectation. The word “
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